Coincidentally, we appear to have fried a card after moving it in and out of our own Focus today to the point that no PC, phone, or camera can read it anymore, so this is definitely a real problem that needs a real solution.
(Emphasis added.)
This describes a card which is flatly fucking dead.
The phone will stop working properly if you remove the SD card, and the SD card cannot be read by another phone, device, or PC.
(Emphasis added.)
This describes a card which has become married to a specific hardware device.
Please try to understand that these are not the same concepts.
I just use the old comment system, which works as well as it ever has.
Just look at the bottom of this screen for the little widget that says "Prefs". Click on that, change things back to sanity, and you'll never see a penis again.
Of course if you'd read the first link you posted, you'd have seen this:
Coincidentally, we appear to have fried a card after moving it in and out of our own Focus today to the point that no PC, phone, or camera can read it anymore, so this is definitely a real problem that needs a real solution.
Which is rather a different problem than your second link describes.
If the MicroSD card in your Windows Phone 7 device cannot be removed or replaced, what is the point of making it a MicroSD card rather than simply more onboard memory?
Good question!
I want to say that cost is the reason, but I can't: As highly-integrated as a modern smartphone is, it'd almost certainly be cheaper to put the extra flash memory on the same board as everything else than it would be to build a socket to house an SD card.
Perhaps marketing flexibility: They may want to be like Apple and advertise non-upgradeable 8, 16, and 32GB models, but don't want the bother of actually building the phones differently on the assembly line.
Or, my favorite option: They wanted you to be able to use it just like every other phone's MicroSD slot. And then, late in the game after the hardware is already beginning to be produced, the software folks decided they weren't going to let that work.
You have to dig further into the links in the article to find out what is really happening.
So if we follow your link and find out what is "really happening," we find out that some blokes plugged a card into a phone and that it seemed to kill the card.
In other words, the sample size is exactly 1. Woopdie doo; shit happens.
There's a million perfectly good reasons for an SD card to die, and there is no reason at all to suspect that the phone killed it based on available information.
Wake me up when someone takes the issue seriously enough to pony up a measly couple of dollars for a new MicroSD card to try to verify the results.
It is both new enough to not be able to play PS2 games, and old enough to have the worse of the two types of blue laser, so I'm leaning toward getting an additional one and never fixing this one. It still plays DVD and CD media gloriously, even though it's broken, and is likely to keep doing so for a very long time.
With the number of DVDs that we've got, plus Netflix, it'll still be put to good use. And the later model that would sit right beside it on the shelf will be spared of being filled with dust bunnies and bison.
Who knows, though. Looking at prices of used systems on Ebay just now, you might have a good idea going there with fixing this old codger and selling it to help fund a sidegrade to a newer model -- even if it can't play PS2 games.
But the particular laser assembly used in my PS3 is very prone to failure. Later versions are reportedly much more reliable, but it's apparently impossible to upgrade it. So while I certainly can fix it, it certainly will break again.
It may be more realistic, at this point, to buy a used PS3 of sufficiently recent vintage to have the improved laser assembly, and just keep the old-and-busted one around for Netflix, DVDs, network media, and such.
The endgame is, Firesheep can always win. Or anyone with a packet sniffer. Unless the site goes completely SSL.
Indeed, this is the most obvious end result.
And now, for the most ridiculous question ever: Why isn't this being done? It isn't 1995 anymore: SSL is (at worst) easy and well-understood for these purposes.
If you think it's hidden and want access to it you can use regedit, or better yet use powershell, and you can navigate the registry like a filesystem: > ls -Recurse HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft | where { $_ -match 'Explorer' }
WTF is this? It seems to spit out an endless tirade of incomprehensible and meaningless shit. For instance:
All I saw on the damned website was a picture of two shoeless men who appear to be very happy to be sitting very close to eachother, enjoying a romantic sunset over the ocean together.
Call me jaded, but if I was looking for romantic encounters with men, I don't think I'd start by downloading a new browser.
(No, they ain't Wiha, Xcelite, or King Dick. They may not be ideal tools to use every day, year after year. But they'll do just fine for occasional jobs.)
I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that in the US, it is also legal to download movies and/or music.
The problem is simply that, in these modern times, "downloading" means the same as "uploading." In order to successfully and expediently torrent a movie, one must make it available to others.
If the Last Mile hadn't been solved then we wouldn't have articles like this, because folks would never have bee able to use Netflix streaming to begin with.
The problem is that the "last mile" consists of many thousands of pipes ranging from 2 to 50 or so Mbps, and the ISPs never built the back-end infrastructure to support folks actually doing stuff with them.
The rhetoric that's spewed makes it sound like insurance companies don't support pre-existing conditions, and if you switched jobs, and thus switch policies, the insurance companies will deny your claims. Too lazy to lookup the law but at some point of time it was actually made illegal for an insurance company to deny a claim on a pre-existing condition, if that person had insurance that covered the condition before. There's some added leway with switching jobs and Cobra that makes it even more difficult for them to deny.
Only for new ailments: I just got cancer, Timmy just got cancer, Timmy has a previously-undiagnosed heart problem, etc.
Meanwhile, in the non-hypothetical world: I have clinical depression. I've been diagnosed as depressed since I was young. There is no "cure".
Suppose I didn't have insurance, but was dealing with treatment on my own for some period of time (news flash: not all jobs offer insurance). Suppose I get a new job that offers insurance.
Will my new insurance cover my treatment?
Under previous rules: No, since it is preexisting. Under "ObamaCare," yes.
And this, friends, is why I unilaterally voted "Libertarian," or in one case "Socialist" in the last election. I was pleasantly amused that this was even possible, since I don't recall it being that way before.
It doesn't matter if I agree with the views of those particular candidates or not, because they're surely not going to win (and they did not). But it is important that at least one other party enter the mainstream. And I don't think it even matters which additional party it is: Simply by having more than two viable choices on a ballot, getting 4 or 5 options should be easy. And having more viable parties will simply allow people to have a better opportunity to vote for people who represent their own views, instead of merely choosing between the lesser of two evils.
We've been entrenched with the Democrats vs. Republicans debacle for far too long.
IIRC, it's possible to die of hypothermia even in relatively mild conditions, if there's a little wind and you manage to soak your clothing (for example, by falling into a creek or pond).
(Just to bring this amusing and generally enjoyable digression back to the topic of TFA...)
Yes, it sure is possible to freeze to death if you're a bit chilly, it's a bit windy, and a you're wet. But after all that, your fancy touch-screen phone is fucked anyway so no high-tech conductive glove in the world will help you call for assistance.
Spoken like someone who has never actually tried using a laptop while standing. It works fine, though I've found that using longer cables works better if I'm going to be at it for awhile...
And there's no reason to be insulting, you miserable fuck. Almost all of my work is in the field in the places you describe, though I suppose you could scratch "scientific outpost" and replace it with "on top of a tower."
You can use it to program an Arduino (no, wait, those generally use USB these days). Or a TI MSP430 Launchpad (er, which actually also talk USB on the $4.30 dev kit).
I know: You can plug it into a random embedded system and debug it! (except, these days, such random embedded systems that are commercially produced have a Windows GUI or DOS front-end for configuration...)
Wait: I've got it! You can CONFIGURE A ROUTER WITH IT! Give me a router, some VT100 emulation and a serial connection to an iPad, and I will rule the world!
Or not. Chances are that if I'm doing that sort of work, I've got some manner of Real Computer which has an RS-232 port available other than a locked-down iPad.
To be perfectly honest, I'd rather edit Sendmail m4 scripts with SSH on my Droid than ever, ever fuck with RS-232 on an iPad with embedded things. And I'm not in any particular hurry to do that, either.
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Try again:
(Emphasis added.)
This describes a card which is flatly fucking dead.
(Emphasis added.)
This describes a card which has become married to a specific hardware device.
Please try to understand that these are not the same concepts.
I just use the old comment system, which works as well as it ever has.
Just look at the bottom of this screen for the little widget that says "Prefs". Click on that, change things back to sanity, and you'll never see a penis again.
Of course if you'd read the first link you posted, you'd have seen this:
Coincidentally, we appear to have fried a card after moving it in and out of our own Focus today to the point that no PC, phone, or camera can read it anymore, so this is definitely a real problem that needs a real solution.
Which is rather a different problem than your second link describes.
HTH. HAND.
Good question!
I want to say that cost is the reason, but I can't: As highly-integrated as a modern smartphone is, it'd almost certainly be cheaper to put the extra flash memory on the same board as everything else than it would be to build a socket to house an SD card.
Perhaps marketing flexibility: They may want to be like Apple and advertise non-upgradeable 8, 16, and 32GB models, but don't want the bother of actually building the phones differently on the assembly line.
Or, my favorite option: They wanted you to be able to use it just like every other phone's MicroSD slot. And then, late in the game after the hardware is already beginning to be produced, the software folks decided they weren't going to let that work.
So if we follow your link and find out what is "really happening," we find out that some blokes plugged a card into a phone and that it seemed to kill the card.
In other words, the sample size is exactly 1. Woopdie doo; shit happens.
There's a million perfectly good reasons for an SD card to die, and there is no reason at all to suspect that the phone killed it based on available information.
Wake me up when someone takes the issue seriously enough to pony up a measly couple of dollars for a new MicroSD card to try to verify the results.
*yawn*
It is both new enough to not be able to play PS2 games, and old enough to have the worse of the two types of blue laser, so I'm leaning toward getting an additional one and never fixing this one. It still plays DVD and CD media gloriously, even though it's broken, and is likely to keep doing so for a very long time.
With the number of DVDs that we've got, plus Netflix, it'll still be put to good use. And the later model that would sit right beside it on the shelf will be spared of being filled with dust bunnies and bison.
Who knows, though. Looking at prices of used systems on Ebay just now, you might have a good idea going there with fixing this old codger and selling it to help fund a sidegrade to a newer model -- even if it can't play PS2 games.
Yep. I can replace it easily enough.
But the particular laser assembly used in my PS3 is very prone to failure. Later versions are reportedly much more reliable, but it's apparently impossible to upgrade it. So while I certainly can fix it, it certainly will break again.
It may be more realistic, at this point, to buy a used PS3 of sufficiently recent vintage to have the improved laser assembly, and just keep the old-and-busted one around for Netflix, DVDs, network media, and such.
Funny. I bought my PS3 for the exact same reasons. I patiently for years for GT5 to be released.
Then, about a month ago, the blue laser in the system died, and no amount of careful disassembly and cleaning would restore it.
And so, now being incapable of playing a Blu-Ray disc, it does neither of the things that I bought it for.
The endgame is, Firesheep can always win. Or anyone with a packet sniffer. Unless the site goes completely SSL.
Indeed, this is the most obvious end result.
And now, for the most ridiculous question ever: Why isn't this being done? It isn't 1995 anymore: SSL is (at worst) easy and well-understood for these purposes.
Why does this continue to be an uphill battle?
Is there a man page for this stuff?
WTF is this? It seems to spit out an endless tirade of incomprehensible and meaningless shit. For instance:
0 10 FontSmoothing {Type, Text, SPIActionGet, SPIActionSet...}
How is this in any way navigating "the registry like a filesystem?"
I can ls -R /etc | xargs cat and get a completely different pile of incomprehensible shit out of a Linux box, but at least it resembles English.
But neither seem to have any particular use.
Feh. If you were making a point, I've missed it. Sorry.
All I saw on the damned website was a picture of two shoeless men who appear to be very happy to be sitting very close to eachother, enjoying a romantic sunset over the ocean together.
Call me jaded, but if I was looking for romantic encounters with men, I don't think I'd start by downloading a new browser.
Tri-wing? Really? That's not so hard.
Just buy them straight from China. Free shipping, too.
(No, they ain't Wiha, Xcelite, or King Dick. They may not be ideal tools to use every day, year after year. But they'll do just fine for occasional jobs.)
I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that in the US, it is also legal to download movies and/or music.
The problem is simply that, in these modern times, "downloading" means the same as "uploading." In order to successfully and expediently torrent a movie, one must make it available to others.
Is this legal in the Netherlands?
I think your pay for "working out" is the bonus.
Therefore, it's during "work hours." The pay may be more than, less than, or the same as your usual rate, but it's still paid.
You can even claim that you're a professional excerciser since you're being paid to do it.
You don't want to do that sort of work? Cool. No "bonus" for you.
*shrug*
Not with Netflix. It adapts handily to a variety of different "broadband" speeds.
Oh, wait. Are you talking about all those miles before the last mile? Because if you are, you could stand to take some English comprehension lessons.
Well, Mr. I'm Against Public Entertainment.
It still seems to me that you're just upset about the kid(s) watching the same films in school that you'd rather watch with them on weekends.
If it's a waste of a child's life at school, then why wouldn't it be the same at home?
I'm really very puzzled by your argument. Perhaps if you didn't mean to raise these points, you should have been more concise.
If the Last Mile hadn't been solved then we wouldn't have articles like this, because folks would never have bee able to use Netflix streaming to begin with.
The problem is that the "last mile" consists of many thousands of pipes ranging from 2 to 50 or so Mbps, and the ISPs never built the back-end infrastructure to support folks actually doing stuff with them.
Only for new ailments: I just got cancer, Timmy just got cancer, Timmy has a previously-undiagnosed heart problem, etc.
Meanwhile, in the non-hypothetical world: I have clinical depression. I've been diagnosed as depressed since I was young. There is no "cure".
Suppose I didn't have insurance, but was dealing with treatment on my own for some period of time (news flash: not all jobs offer insurance). Suppose I get a new job that offers insurance.
Will my new insurance cover my treatment?
Under previous rules: No, since it is preexisting. Under "ObamaCare," yes.
Are you really complaining about NCLB on the basis that you can't find a new movie to watch with your kid(s)?
Really?
My God, man. I thought NCLB was about education, not home-life.
Pick a better point.
And this, friends, is why I unilaterally voted "Libertarian," or in one case "Socialist" in the last election. I was pleasantly amused that this was even possible, since I don't recall it being that way before.
It doesn't matter if I agree with the views of those particular candidates or not, because they're surely not going to win (and they did not). But it is important that at least one other party enter the mainstream. And I don't think it even matters which additional party it is: Simply by having more than two viable choices on a ballot, getting 4 or 5 options should be easy. And having more viable parties will simply allow people to have a better opportunity to vote for people who represent their own views, instead of merely choosing between the lesser of two evils.
We've been entrenched with the Democrats vs. Republicans debacle for far too long.
(Just to bring this amusing and generally enjoyable digression back to the topic of TFA...)
Yes, it sure is possible to freeze to death if you're a bit chilly, it's a bit windy, and a you're wet. But after all that, your fancy touch-screen phone is fucked anyway so no high-tech conductive glove in the world will help you call for assistance.
How frustrating it must be to have to actually come to my house to copy my porn. It seems so low-tech.
Spoken like someone who has never actually tried using a laptop while standing. It works fine, though I've found that using longer cables works better if I'm going to be at it for awhile...
And there's no reason to be insulting, you miserable fuck. Almost all of my work is in the field in the places you describe, though I suppose you could scratch "scientific outpost" and replace it with "on top of a tower."
But it's useful!
You can use it to program an Arduino (no, wait, those generally use USB these days). Or a TI MSP430 Launchpad (er, which actually also talk USB on the $4.30 dev kit).
I know: You can plug it into a random embedded system and debug it! (except, these days, such random embedded systems that are commercially produced have a Windows GUI or DOS front-end for configuration...)
Wait: I've got it! You can CONFIGURE A ROUTER WITH IT! Give me a router, some VT100 emulation and a serial connection to an iPad, and I will rule the world!
Or not. Chances are that if I'm doing that sort of work, I've got some manner of Real Computer which has an RS-232 port available other than a locked-down iPad.
To be perfectly honest, I'd rather edit Sendmail m4 scripts with SSH on my Droid than ever, ever fuck with RS-232 on an iPad with embedded things. And I'm not in any particular hurry to do that, either.